Several Wall Street investment banks and research organizations have recently lifted their year-end targets for the S&P 500. Bank of America and Goldman Sachs upwardly revised their outlooks in July, following Barclay, Citigroup, and Deutsche Bank, all of which raised their outlooks in June.

Live Updates Live Coverage Updates appear automatically as they are published. AmEx Downgraded 9:34 am Not all today’s banking news is good. S&P 500 component company American Express (NYSE: AXP) got hit today with a downgraded to neutral from Monness,

Markets had dismissed tariff risks under the assumption that Trump would follow an earlier pattern and back off, in what became known as the so-called TACO trade. That allowed stocks to reach new record-high territory recently, marking a stunning rebound from the collapse triggered by his “Liberation Day” reciprocal tariffs in April.

In April, the Trump administration blocked Nvidia from selling H20 GPUs in China, a decision that has already cost the company billions of dollars in revenue. Nvidia recently filed applications to resume selling H20 GPUs in China and has reportedly received assurances from the U.